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Topic 2What is human factors?
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Learning objective
Understand human factors and its relationship to patient safety
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Knowledge requirements
• explain the meaning of the term human factors
• explain the relationship between human factors and patient safety
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Performance requirement
• apply human factors thinking to your work environment
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Human factors definition
• the study of all the factors that make it easier to do the work in the right way
• apply wherever humans work
• also sometimes known as ergonomics
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Human factors
Importance of human factors has been recognized for a long time in:
• aviation
• nuclear power
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Importance in health care?
• only recently been acknowledged as an essential part of patient safety
• a major contributor to adverse events in health care
• all health-care workers need to have a basic understanding of human factors principles
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Human factors experts
• design improvements in the workplace and the equipment to fit human capabilities and limitations
• make it easier for the workers to get the work done the right way
• decrease the likelihood of errors occurring
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The range of workers
• good human factors design in health care accommodates the entire range of workers
○ not just the calm, rested experienced clinician
○ also for inexperienced health-care workers who might be stressed, fatigued and rushing
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Examples
• order medications electronically
• hand off information
• move patients
If all of these tasks become easier for the health-careprovider, then patient safety can improve.
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Avoidable confusion is everywhere…
US Department of Veteran affairs
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Health care is increasingly Health care is increasingly complexcomplex
Gaba
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Human factors design principles
Senses- Vision - Hearing
Psychomotor- Hands
Input Devices- Buttons
Output- Display - Sound
INTERFACE
US Department of Veteran affairs
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Human factors
• acknowledges:○ the universal nature of human fallibility○ the inevitability of error
• assumes that errors will occur
• designs things in the workplace to try to minimize the likelihood of error or its consequences
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Traps in health care?
• look-alike and sound-alike pharmaceuticals
• equipment design
○ e.g. infusion pumps
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We cope quite well with complexity
• Health-care workers are quite good at compensating for some of the complex and unclear design of some aspects of the workplace
○ equipment
○ physical layouts
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Because the human brain is ….
• very powerful
• very flexible
• good at finding shortcuts (fast)
• good at filtering information
• good at making sense of things
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Sometimes though our brain is
“too clever” …
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Are the lines crooked or straight?Optillusions.com
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Look at the chart
Say the colour of the word, not the word itself
Why is it hard? Optillusions.com
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The fact that we can misperceive
situations despite the best of
intentions is one of the main reasons
that our decisions and actions can
be flawed such that …
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Human beings make “silly” mistakes
ActivityThink about and then discuss with your colleagues any “silly” mistakes you have made recently when you were not in your place of work or study - and why you think they happened
Regardless of their experience, intelligence, motivation or vigilance, people make mistakes
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The context of health care
When errors occur in the workplace the consequences can be a problem for the patient
○ a situation that is relatively unique to health care
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One definition of “human error” is “human nature”
Error is the inevitable downside of having a brain!
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What is an error?
• the failure of a planned action to achieve its intended outcome
• a deviation between what was actually done and what should have been done
Reason
• A definition that may be easier to remember is: ○ “Doing the wrong thing when meaning to do the right thing.”
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Situations associated with an increased risk of error
• unfamiliarity with the task*• inexperience*• shortage of time• inadequate checking• poor procedures
• poor human equipment interfaceVincent
* Especially if combined with lack of supervision
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Individual factors that predispose to error• limited memory capacity• further reduced by:
○ fatigue○ stress○ hunger○ illness○ language or cultural factors○ hazardous attitudes
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Fatigue
24 hours of sleep deprivation has performance effects
~ blood alcohol content of 0.1%
Dawson – Nature, 1997
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Stress and performance
The relationship between stress and performance
Stress level
Area of “optimum”
stress
Low stress Boredom
High stress Anxiety, panic
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Yerkes, R. M., & Dodson, J. D. (1908) The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit-formation.
Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 18, 459-482
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Don’t forget ….
If you’re H ungry A ngry L ateor T ired …..
HALT
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A performance-shaping factors “checklist”
I Illness M Medication
prescription, alcohol & others S Stress A Alcohol F Fatigue E Emotion
Jensen, 1987
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Apply human factors thinking to your work
environment
1. Avoid reliance on memory
2. Make things visible
3. Review and simplify processes
4. Standardize common processes and procedures
5. Routinely use checklists
6. Decrease the reliance on vigilance
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Summary: human factors
• errors are inevitable - even for doctors!
• there are situations that can increase the likelihood of error
○ recognize them for your patient’s sake - and yours!
• attention to human factors principles can lead to a reduction in error or its
consequences
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Summary
Human factors engineering is about designing the workplace and the equipment in it to accommodate for limitations of human performance